Taylor Mead, a Simple Country Girl

Taylor Mead''s fourth book--his best and funniest book--and his firstbook in twenty years, "Taylor Mead, a Simple Country Girl," is acollection of poems that are bright, ephemeral, and brilliant downtownZen.Once Poet Laureate of Andy Warhol''s Factory and now an indomitableoctogenarian, Taylor Mead has recently been seen in Jim Jarmusch''slatest, "Coffee and Cigarettes." He''s a renowned actor, havingappeared in innumerable underground classics from Warhol''s "LonesomeCowboys" to the first film of the Beat generation, "The Flower Thief."On stage he created the title role in Frank O''Hara''s "The GeneralReturns from One Place to Another" and Michael McClure''s "SpiderRabbit." Taylor Mead continues to be the most avant poet on theblock¿if he were in Japan, he''d be a National Treasure. Here, he''s gota weekly cocktail gig at the Bowery Poetry Club (every Friday at6:30).Who but Taylor Mead could possibly head the list of a series of bookspublished under the Bowery Poetry Club imprint? Described by the NewYork Times as "that beacon on the Bowery" and proclaimed "the bestpoetry club in the world" by the Village Voice, the BPC has launchedwith YBK Publishers a series of books of and on poetry that will bringthe freshest poetry to center stage¿in fact, much of the workoriginates right on stage at the Club. Continuing the series of bookswill bring you the Club''s Bartenders, complete with poetry recipes and"The Bowery Girls," five young women poets of the Bowery.